hi. firstoff i will say that i am an experienced linux user and have been using it since 1997 so i should be able to understand technical replies :) I am sort of new to SuSE, started playing with 7.3, and now started playing with 8.0. my main Linux of choice is Debian. I am also new to the 2.4 kernel, until i started with suse i did not touch the 2.4 kernel ... I have seen this problem before on this motherboard model(many times over the past 2 years), or at least a variant of it but am unable to solve it for the installer of SuSE 8. It involves the aic7xxx driver constantly resetting the AHA2940U2W controller on my Intel L440GX+ motherboard(Bios rev 14.3, latest). Under linux 2.2 this is easily worked around with the kernel option aic7xxx=no_reset. this is with the aic7xxx driver built into the kernel, since suse uses it as a module it may be different ...all my kernels on my debian systems are static builds. infact i installed debian 2.2 on this system just now to make sure it worked and it worked perfectly. I looked through the 2.4.18 source for aic7xxx.c: http://www.zelow.no/floppyfw/download/modules/2.4.18/build/drivers/scsi/aic7... (i didn't want to download the whole tree for 1 file ...) and noticed the same options there. however no matter what i have tried they do not appear to have any effect. I have tried aic7xxx=no_reset on the lilo command line before booting, i have tried it when it prompts me to put in options for the module(during manual install), I have tried both aic7xxx and aic7xxx_old (the old one seems to get a bit further, it can detect 1 scsi drive before going into endless reset mode). maybe it has to do with the fact that the driver is modularized? i noticed that the driver file said: "A Boot time option was also added for not resetting the scsi bus." i don't know if that option is ignored when the driver is a module or not ...in any case i can't get it workin. I have installed this SuSe on an AHA2940UW with no problems as well as on 2 laptops with no problems. i thought it was funny that the 2 laptops i installed on, debian wouldn't even boot(laptop said invalid disk) and now here i am with SuSE unable to boot and debian installs flawlessly. rofl. anyways, this is probably an easy fix, I have already checked and I have the latest bios, my termination seems fine, my SCSI chain looks like this according to debian 2.2(linux 2.2.17): Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: QUANTUM Model: ATLAS 10K 9WLS Rev: UCP0 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00 Vendor: QUANTUM Model: ATLAS 10K 9WLS Rev: UCP0 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 02 Lun: 00 Vendor: QUANTUM Model: ATLAS 10K 9WLS Rev: UCP0 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 03 Lun: 00 Vendor: TOSHIBA Model: CD-ROM XM-6201TA Rev: 1030 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 04 Lun: 00 Vendor: TOSHIBA Model: CD-ROM XM-6201TA Rev: 1030 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 my IRQ setup: CPU0 0: 156939 XT-PIC timer 1: 1240 XT-PIC keyboard 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 10: 17998 XT-PIC eth0 11: 8048 XT-PIC aic7xxx, aic7xxx 13: 1 XT-PIC fpu NMI: 0 this is a dual p3-550 (i don't have a SMP kernel up in debian just yet) no expansion cards on the system, no IDE devices, the cdroms are external hooked to channel B of the 2940U2W, onboard eepro100, vga, scsi .. 512MB ECC ram. if all else fails how hard is it to hack together a suse boot disk with a 2.2.x kernel ? i have no need for the features in 2.4.x, and can do without it if needed. this system is mainly just to test .. as for the actual errors, it is really difficult to get them, using aic7xxx the error is about 1 full screen every 5 seconds. if there is a way to send this info to the serial port i can easily get it, otherwise it scrolls way too fast for me to write/type. using aic7xxx_old the error is similar to the 2.2 kernel error which just says it is resetting the bus over and o ver and over and over and over and.. if you need more info let me know i can provide it. I searched the suse support database and did not come up with much, there is no reference for 2940U2W nor L440GX, a couple articles related to aic7xxx but couldn't find anything real useful. Since I have had this scsi-resetting problem on almost every L440GX+ system I have used(about a dozen) I am pretty confident if I can convince the kernel/driver to not reset the bus it should work ....also searched google for suse and l440gx/2940U2W and didn't find much (other then ~1998-99 stuff ..) thanks! nate